1 Corinthians 5:8 Commentary - Dr Peter Masters

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1 Corinthians 5:8

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Let us keep this permanent ongoing feast ‘not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness’, which means all evil and badness and depravity, ‘but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.’ ‘Lord’, when we are at the Lord's table we say, ‘give me sincerity and truthfulness.’ Here we have this wonderful positive concept: the ongoing feast that belongs to every born again believer. We are feeding on the presence of Christ. We are feeding daily on his strengthening. We are feeding on his help, all the light that he gives us as we read the word, and the information and the life-long education. We learn of God and his ways and his plans and his purposes. We are feeding on the fellowship of the family of God's people. We are feeding on the promises. We are feeding on our inheritance, which is to come, eternal bliss and glory with the Lord. These are the things which we are feeding on in the permanent ongoing feast, which is ours as believers.

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The Christian life is viewed as a permanent Passover feast. What a wonderful concept! You eat the loaves of sincerity and truth. Their loaves of old were unleavened bread; your loaves are purity and truth. You could say that the Lord's Supper service reminds us of this. It is not a Passover, but it is a reminder of the permanent Passover phase that we are living in. The Lord’s Supper is a time when we search our hearts and rededicate ourselves to the Lord, so when you come to the Lord’s table, one of the uppermost concerns in your heart is to confess sin, and to put away all known sin; to purify your heart, and plead afresh for the forgiveness of the Lord. We all do that; we do it together, so that, as a body, we are purified. But Christ our Passover makes the Passover of old a picture of our experience of Christ throughout the entirety of life.

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